Les Filles du Roi will be on display as part of the exhibition Fragile until the 3rd of December at G101 in Ottawa.
“I have but one language—yet that language is not mine.” Le monolinguisme de l’autre, Jacques Derrida
Twenty years after Marc Charbonneau’s Les accents d’inquiétantes étrangetés, – Presented in Montréal and Ottawa in 1987 and initiated by BRAVO, the exhibition put together 28 art pieces by 16 francophone artists living in Ontario – curator Salomé Viguier once again takes up an exhibition concept based on two categories of identity: language – French in a minority setting – and age –a generation of artists under 35: Vincent Chevalier, Mariana Lafrance, Mathieu Goupil-Lemay, Geneviève Thauvette, Faye Mullen and Matthieu Sabourin.

Through works by six artists, Fragile explores the relationship that exists between presenting an artist according to a socio-demographic point of view, and how a viewer perceives that artist’s work. What are the ensuing expectations? Which projection of the self does the artist share with the viewer? What part of their identity can we recognize/receive from their artwork?